The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-05


SHERIFF MATsoN OF Chicago has offered
s., 800 reward for the capture of McGarigle,
who was last heard of at Milwaukee, head
ing for Manitoba.
THE old Harriet Beecher Stowe house in
Andover, Mass, in which the famous
authoress wrote ''Uncle Toms Cabin, /" was
burned on the night of the 26th.
A MYSTERIOUS murder occurred near the
fair grounds at Concordia, Kan, on the
night of the 25th. The victim was VIM.
Terbush, son of a horse-trader who resides
in Clay Center. No clew to the murderer,
and no reasonable conjecture as to the mo-
tive.
on the 9th boys at play in Clinton, Ia,
set fire to a barn in a thickly-settled part
of the city. The Baptist Church and four
residences were destroyed, and half a
dozen other structures were badly dam
aged. The loss is about $4,000, only part.
ly insured.
FIRE destroyed the block occupied by the
Humphrey Bros' Hardware Company, A.
W. Jansen, furniture, and others, at Lin
coin, Neb., on he 9th. Losses aggregate
$4,000; partly insured.
THE Riverside Iron and Steel works at
Cincinnati, w, p. Harris, superintendent,
and A, L. p. Gasre, secretary, have as.
signed to John s. Conners. Liabilities,
$200,0O0.
AN accident on the Baltimore q Ohio
railway, near Cumberland, Md, on the
2Sth, killed an engineer and fireman.
Two pleasure yachts were capsized of
the English coast on the 2Sth, and ten peo
pie were drowned.
GEoRGE ADAMS, of Mexico, Mo-, has
sued the Wabash Western railway for $780,
! 600 for personal injuries.
CASUALTIES by the Hopedale (nl.) dis
aster now foot up ten killed and twenty
five injured.
A COVERED wagon was run into by q
train on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Ridgewood Station, Pa, on the 2Sth, and
four persons were killed. They were
Amanda Fritz, aged thirty-two, and Hettie
Fritz and her two children, aged eighteen
and three months, respectively.
THE fire in the naptha spring store
houses at Balachut, Russia, was extin-
guished, after burning for several days.
One million poods of naphtha wore burned,
CHARLES EVANS, a colOred man, was
charged in the police court at Washington
on the 2Sth, with grave-rObbing, and was
/ sent to the wOrkhOuse to allow the officers
an opportunity TO investigate the matter
further. He opened the grave of his dead
sweetheart and cut off one of her hands.
A WIND storm with rain, on the 2Sth, de-
stroyed part of the grand stand, unroofed
u
and prostrated the telegraph and telephone
wires at the Latonia race-track, at Cincin.
natl, causing $1,000 to $4,000 damages. Nc
/ person was injured.
A TELEGRAM was received at the execu-
tive department, at Harrisburg, Pa, on
the 2Sth, from the city marshal of Wind.
sor, o., stating that he had arrested man
who was supposed to be McCabe, the es-
capped Wayne County murderer, who was
Z Il 4 4
McCabe was forwarded.
EMRs. TRUGO and two children were
burned to death in Chicago tenement fire
on the 29th. Several others were badly in.
! jured, some fatally.
| ZBY an accident on the Baltimore & Ohio
railway at West Newton, Pa, on the 29th
a fireman named Orbin was killed and En-.
gineer Gilland was fatally injured.
G. HENINGER, aged eighty-seven, OF
Brooklyn, suicided, on the 2gth, by shoot
ing himself through the head. He had
been troubled with sOftening of the brain
for some time.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON received q
telegram on the 18th from Passed Assistant
| Surgeon Guiteras, dated Key West, saying
| that there had been 112 cases of yellow
| fever and Al deaths to date.
DANIEL SHEEHAS, n nephew of Mr.. Shee-
han, member of Parliament for Kerry,
/ Crimes act. He is charged with assaulting
/ bailiffs.
| DANIEL Lyons, the murderer of Athlete
/ Quinn, arrived in New York on the 29th
| from Pittsburgh. Subsequently he waived
/ examination and was held for the grand
| jury.
IT has been. discovered that Calvin Rigg
a schOOl-tax collector for the town Of Con.
/ shohocken, Pa, from 1882 to 1885, is short
in his accounts for the years 1SS4-5 to the
amount of $4,000.
] A DARING and carefElly-planned robbery
was perpetrated at the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy passenger depot at Des
/ Moines, Ia, on the Goth, one of the light.
/ fingered gentry getting away with the
money in the safe during the temporary
absence of the ticket-seller.
THE Rockland cafe and large clambake
/ pavilion connected with the Hotel Nantas-
ket, at Nantasket Beach, Mass, burned on
the evening of the 29th. The great hotel
| itself was saved with great difficulty.
Loss, 5000; insured.
THREE men were seriously injured by a
premature blast at Burden furnace, Hud.
son, N. Y, on the 29th. They were still
alive at last accounts, with faint hopes OF
| recovery. The accident was the result OF
their own carelessness.
AN elevator in the Bremen shoe and slip
per factory in st. Louis fell, on the even.
ing of the 29th, with load of passengers
Two Of them, Alex. Farrar and Annie
Moran, were fatally hurt.
JOSEPH Rich, farmer, returning home
from Richmond, Ind, on the 29th, in a
wcgon, together with his wife, baby and
wife's mother, attempted to cross the rail.
road track ahead of passenger train. AS
/ a result, Rich, his baby and his wife's
mother were instantly killed and Mrs. Rich
terribly mangled.